101 Words Or Phrases We Could Do Without

[Millymollymandy]

Some words, however, bring out the worst in me - especially in estate agents ads:

The property benefits from double glazing. Ggggrrrr! Why just this property? Wouldn't any property be better double glazed, particularly in our cold climate? Why not just say - windows are double glazed?

And my pet hate: Suitable for lifestyle buyers. Usually on ads for something that I'd like, but haven't got the money for; i.e. they want somebody with three oversized cars, a couple of horses, and loads of ready cash. Don't I live my life in a style of sorts, too?

Oooh oooh ooooh don't get me started!! It's the ones that say "blah blah blah garden, SUITABLE for a swimming pool"! Nearly all gardens are suitable for a swimming pool, they just ain't ruddy got one!!!

Then all the old wrecks here with a falling down barn or chicken shack, is of course, worth at least €100,000 more, because it is "SUITABLE FOR A GITE"!

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

[Han&Matt]

Compact / Bijou = no room for a sofa
Dual aspect = windows at the back too
Highly desirable area = better keep up with the Jones's
Well-presented = clean
Managable outdoor space = tiny courtyard
Some original features = like a 70s bathroom...?
I know, I used to write them...!

Worst one by far overheard in office.....wait for it ladies....

"I'll get my girl to call yours" AAAaaagggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[Millymollymandy]

to the above post!

The word 'renovated'.

In France this can mean anything from a single electric light socket was fitted in the 1930s to all the original features were taken out in the 1950s.

[the.fee.fairy]

oooh...my favourite (ahem) americanism at the moment:

I could care less

The phrase is i could NOT care less, if you could care less, then you must care a bit!

[Thymepasses]

The management phrase..."going forward"
Inserted to pad out a meaningless phrase, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[multiveg]

1) How do you cope without a tv?

2) "New" on merchandise. Is it still new after a year or two?

3) Press 1 for... Press 2 for....

[Wombat]

" Ya want fries with that?"

[Masco&Bongo]

"
Six Sigma, and "I'm a black belt in six sigma"...No your a W*****

My DH is a black belt in six sigma...

I didn't realise it was such an awful thing...

He is part of the team designing a new warehouse for his company and his qualification has enabled him to get a pay rise (which is a good thing)

On the actual thread topic....

I detest the "press 1 for... press 2 for...."

Answer the bloody phone!!!

[Millymollymandy]

I've just had to google six sigma because I presumed from the earlier posting that it was some kind of martial art. Obviously it's not but I don't understand a word of what it is!

[madanna]

'Catterpiller flex'

They really will say anything to sell disposable nappies - they are convincing parents they need catterpiller flex (roughly translated as ELASTIC) cos oh my gosh a childs tummy changes shape and size in the night - a stunning revalation!

My terry nappy babies never had any problems with leaking round the middle cos the soft terry moves with them...evidently pre catterpiller flex disposables were rigid and didnt move with baby

Arghghghghgh they will say anything to sell the blimmin things wont they?

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

My pet hates,

24/7 where the hell did that originate ?

and the one that really gets me shouting at the TV news is 'shot to death' surely shot and killed is a more accurate way of expressing the event ?


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[Andy Hamilton]

and the one that really gets me shouting at the TV news is 'shot to death' surely shot and killed is a more accurate way of expressing the event ?

Hmm made me think of another one- near miss - well that is a hit is it not?

[Stonehead]

There are numerous words and phrases that annoy me, but there's only that's guaranteed to have me reaching for the axe...

"Ooh, you must be living the Good Life then."

And, 99 times out of 100, the people saying it have a look of "bet you haven't heard that before".

Yes, I have heard it 357,689,329 times before; no, I am not living the ******* Good Life; and yes, if you make one more comment comparing the way I choose to live with an ancient sit-com then I will disembowel you with this axe.

[The Chili Monster]

Stonehead wrote:

Yes, I have heard it 357,689,329 times before; no, I am not living the ******* Good Life; and yes, if you make one more comment comparing the way I choose to live with an ancient sit-com then I will disembowel you with this axe.

*Gulp*.

[Muddypause]

if you make one more comment comparing the way I choose to live with an ancient sit-com then I will disembowel you with this axe.

Remember that the phrase 'living the good life' (or similar) predates the sitcom; the sitcom was, itself, referencing such a phrase ironically.

To ask if you are 'living the good life' is not necessarily comparing you to the programme at all. Ask them if they mean it with capitalisation before you do something too nasty to them.